889 holiday recipes

A vibrant Christmas conserve with cranberries, whole oranges, pineapple, and dried apricots cooked into a chunky, jewel-toned spread. Jar it up for holiday gifting or slather on toast all season long.

No-bake chocolate truffles shaped like tiny mice with almond ears, dragee eyes, and licorice tails. A fun holiday treat kids love to make and eat. Makes 2 dozen.

Old-fashioned Christmas fruit cake with boiled raisins, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. No eggs or butter needed, just cold water and shortening for a dense, spiced holiday cake.

Homemade chocolate covered cherries with rum-soaked maraschino cherries wrapped in fondant and double-dipped in chocolate. Liquid-center holiday candies just like the ones in the gold box.

Old-fashioned popcorn ring pressed into a mold and studded with spiced gumdrops, mini marshmallows, and whole pecans. A sticky-sweet caramel popcorn centerpiece for holiday gatherings.

Ritzy chocolate-covered nuts are candied slivered almonds with a crackly sugar shell, roasted to toasty perfection and dipped in melted chocolate. A three-ingredient homemade holiday candy for gift tins.

This vegan tofu turkey is the plant-based centerpiece your holiday table needs. Five pounds of pressed tofu shaped into a roast, stuffed with your favorite filling, then basted with nutty sesame oil and soy sauce until golden and crispy.

Perfect for Halloween, chocolate cake decorated like black widow spiders.

This recipe was a wonderful mix of fruity flavors that were not too sweet. I love mango and these are very very good!

This recipe nowadays is not only cooked in Chinese New Year, but also in normal days!

Bloody bug juice is a fizzy Halloween punch made with mashed strawberries, lemonade, and ginger ale. Raisins and blueberries float to the top like creepy crawly bugs. Kids go wild for it!

Classic French yule log cake with chocolate meringue buttercream, caramel mushrooms, and orange-almond sponge. This stunning Buche de Noel is a traditional Christmas centerpiece.

A fun take on breadsticks; baked rolls that use candied cherries twisted into the shape of a candy cane. Fun and lightly sweet, my kids adore them.

This recipe is a tradition in my husband's Swedish family. It makes enough cookies to feed the Swedish Army.

Gingerbread Skeleton cookies that kids can make with you together, it is full of fun to make, and it is worth the efforts!

Halloween veggie platter with a deliberately lumpy, yellowish cottage cheese dip that looks horrifying but tastes like a savory onion dip. Gross-out party food that's secretly healthy.